60th anniversary of the world's first programmable computer - "Baby"
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Did you know Trivia - Constructed by the Electrical Engineering department in a Manchester University laboratory in 1948, "Baby", officially known as the Small Scale Experimental Machine and sometimes referred to as the Mark I prototype, was the first computer, with only 128 bytes of memory, that allowed programs to be electronically stored. It was preceded by the top-secret Colossus machines used at Bletchley Park for decoding German signals during the second world war. The Colossus, originally constructed by Tommy Flowers and a team at a Post Office laboratory in Dollis Hill, London, was a pre-programmed machine, hard wired to solve only a small set of specific tasks. After the war the Colossus machines were broken up and buried on the orders of the then Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. click this link to read more
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Tuesday 24 June, 2008 01:49 PM |